Teaser Video

Info:

This is a replica of the Gavril T series Cabover from BeamNG.drive. As you likely noticed, this build is a lot more detailed and complex than any of my other builds. This is a similar kind of build to the 8x8 Big Rig, but much more detailed. The suspension is fully modeled to look and act like real leaf spring suspension. The cab is mounted on springs to give it a slight bounciness, this is the closest you can get to soft body physics without a ton of work. You can flip up the cab by clicking one of the buttons on the front of the cab. This will expose the engine, which I also detailed. The full drive train is modeled as much as I could, including a drive shaft with custom U joints. The flapper took ages to design and get working correctly. It bounces around at idle, when you give it full throttle, it moves wide-open, and when you kill the engine, it shuts completely. The interior is nothing too spectacular, but it's there. Now, to address the elephant in the room, it is not to scale, but I was unable to make it to scale without breaking everything. It still handles fairly realistically. I hope you enjoy this build, and have fun driving it around!
How I designed the leafspring suspension
How I designed the drivetrain and engine

Controls:

If you forget the controls, check craft instructions.

• Activate1= Head lights
• Activate2= Swing cab forward (Click front of cab)
• Activate3= Open passenger door (Click passenger door latch)
• Activate4= Open driver door (Click driver door latch)
• Activate8= Kill engine
• Pitch= Throttle control
• Roll= Steering control
• Brake= Brake control
  

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notes:

• As mentioned above, this is a replica not an original design.
• As mentioned above, this vehicle is not to scale, when I try to use the in game skill tool, all the springs broke, and were no longer at the right tension, I could not figure out how to fix it, so it'll have to be a little large, if any of you know how to fix it please feel free to.
• Feel free to download and mess with this all you want. (Credit would be appreciated)
• When turning sharply at high speed, the rear tires lose traction a little bit, however this is realistic.
• Credit to BogdanX for the engine funky trees code.
• Credit to all of those who helped me with the flapper, thx.
  

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comparison

Truck in BeamNG.drive

SimplePlanes version

Enjoy!